Alenda Lux - Paperback

Hedgpeth, Marilyn Turner: - A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Marilyn earned a BA in English from Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC and a Master of Divinity from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. She retired as a PC(USA) Minister of Word and Sacrament after preaching/teaching/leading/loving life through the church for twenty-four years, seventeen of them at First Presbyterian Church in Durham, NC. She has published sermons, adult curriculum, and articles for the Presbyterian Church, but since retirement has expanded her creative endeavors to include poetry. Her first poetry book, The Lightness of Reprieve, was published in 2024, and her second, a collaborative collection with her writing group, White Fence, was also published in 2024. Marilyn and husband, Hedge, have three talented children (and spouses) and two grandsons (and two grand dogs) whom they adore. Having lived in Charlotte, Greensboro, Greenville, Atlanta, and Durham for most of her life, she often referred to I-85 as her home street.